NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M vs ATI Radeon X800 GT
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M and ATI Radeon X800 GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.
Differences
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M
- Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
- 2.1x more core clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 475 MHz
- 3.4x more texture fill rate: 13 billion / sec vs 3.8 GTexel / s
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 110 nm
- 8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
- 6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 504 vs 84
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Launch date | 3 March 2009 vs 1 November 2005 |
| Core clock speed | 1000 MHz vs 475 MHz |
| Texture fill rate | 13 billion / sec vs 3.8 GTexel / s |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm vs 110 nm |
| Maximum memory size | 1 GB vs 128 MB |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 504 vs 84 |
Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 GT
- Around 13% lower typical power consumption: 40 Watt vs 45 Watt
- Around 4% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 423 vs 407
| Specifications (specs) | |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 40 Watt vs 45 Watt |
| Benchmarks | |
| PassMark - G2D Mark | 423 vs 407 |
Compare benchmarks
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X800 GT
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| Name | NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M | ATI Radeon X800 GT |
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| PassMark - G2D Mark | 407 | 423 |
| PassMark - G3D Mark | 504 | 84 |
Compare specifications (specs)
| NVIDIA GeForce GTS 150M | ATI Radeon X800 GT | |
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Essentials |
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| Architecture | Tesla | R400 |
| Code name | G94 | R430 |
| Launch date | 3 March 2009 | 1 November 2005 |
| Place in performance rating | 402 | 403 |
| Type | Laptop | Desktop |
Technical info |
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| Core clock speed | 1000 MHz | 475 MHz |
| CUDA cores | 64 | |
| Floating-point performance | 128 gflops | |
| Gigaflops | 192 | |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | 110 nm |
| Pipelines | 64 | |
| Texture fill rate | 13 billion / sec | 3.8 GTexel / s |
| Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 45 Watt | 40 Watt |
| Transistor count | 505 million | 160 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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| Audio input for HDMI | S / PDIF | |
| Display Connectors | DisplayPortHDMIDual Link DVILVDSSingle Link DVIVGA | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
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| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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| Bus support | PCI-E 2.0 | |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
| Laptop size | large | |
| MXM Type | MXM 3.0 Type-B | |
| SLI options | 2-way | |
| Supplementary power connectors | None | |
API support |
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| DirectX | 10.0 | 9.0b |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | 2.0 |
Memory |
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| Maximum RAM amount | 1 GB | 128 MB |
| Memory bandwidth | 51 GB / s | 31.55 GB / s |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | 256 Bit |
| Memory type | GDDR3 | DDR |
| Shared memory | 0 | |
| Memory clock speed | 986 MHz | |
Technologies |
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| MXM 3.0 Type-B | ||
| PCI-E 2.0 | ||
| Power management | 8.0 | |
| PowerMizer 8.0 | ||
| PureVideo HD | ||
